VISIT DENVER has a 3-day weekend erary laid out for the LGBTQ muny. Plan your Denver weekend getaway wh gay-iendly events, activi, and to-dos.
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GAY PARTI & EVENTS
Denver has grown populary as a travel statn for LGBTQ visors. Fd out what the Denver gay scene has to offer & what LGBTQ events are happeng. * denver lgbt events *
By the 1980s, Denver was dubbed the gay oasis of the wt.
1973: Gay Coaln of Denver works wh Denver's Cy Council to abolish anti-gay laws. 1982: The Colorado Gay Roo Associatn is formed.
Soon after, Denver hosted s first gay roo. 1983: Denver's gay and lbian muny mobiliz to elect Feri Peña, Denver's first Lato mayor and executive ally to the muny.
Disver gay bars, clubs, & nightlife Denver, Colorado. Dive to The Mile High Cy’s queer muny & fd a gay nightclub near your hotel or neighborhood. * denver lgbt events *
1990: Denver be one of the first municipali the natn to adopt an anti-discrimatn policy cludg gay and lbians.
2018: Colorado elects Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be a U. The 10 pot-tour clus Cheman Park; Charlie’s, home of the Colorado Gay Roo Associatn; and Sey’s Lndromat, a muny landmark which generated tense bate about historic prervatn and muny inty. But, there’s a park the heart of the cy, and not far om Denver’s inic gayborhood Capol Hill, that has more than pop-up volleyball urts and hammocks.
Denver’s celebratn and support for the LGBTQ+ muny spans beyond the month of June wh welg neighborhoods, queer-iendly shops, rtrants and bars such as Pie Queen, Blh and Blu, Ra’s Law, Third Culture and Mozart’s Denver jt to name a few, and events such as the CemaQ Film Ftival and the Colorado Gay Roo. In 1990, Denver beme one of the first municipali the natn to adopt an anti-discrimatn policy, cludg gay and lbians, and 2014, Colorado legalized same-sex marriage, honorg love across all muni. It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space.
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Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door. Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler).